Marianna Crane

Have you ever considered being on a Board?

I have choosen to reblog this post because I believe nurses bring invaluable skills and knowledge to various health care boards. I am currently serving on a board at Duke Raleigh Hospital in Raleigh, NC.
Next week I will be in Chicago at the Beryl Institute Patient Experience Conference along with the Chief Nursing Officer, and the Manager of Service Excellence to give a presentation about our Patient Advocacy Council. I will post updates from the conference and share more information about my board experience on future Posts.

Here at the NurseManifest project, we have tended to emphasize grass roots, “on the street” kinds of activism to bring our deepest nursing values into everyday experience. But manifesting nursing values needs to happen everywhere, and one of the spheres where this is vitally important is in the Board Rooms, large and small. Lisa Sundean, who is one of our NurseManifest bloggers, is embarking on her dissertation project to explore nurses on Boards, and in the interest of sharing her work wide and far, she has established website and blog – SundeanRN.org! Her first blog post is now available, explaining why this is vitally important! I highly recommend that you read her post: What do Boards Have to do with Nursing? And if you have never considered serving in this capacity, think about it now! We need to be manifesting nursing everywhere – at the bedside, the chairside…